Part:BBa_K5330019
SmBiT-Encapsulin2A
This part is a subtype of encapsulin specific to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) encoded by gene MAP2121C. Encapsulins are cage forming proteins that are used for metabolic channelling/substrate protection in lower organisms. Encapsulin monomers readily form multimeric cages under variable conditions resulting in labile exchange of monomers to make varying cage sizes. Type 2A encapsulins are less well studied that type 1. The differentiation usually arises from the species of organism and grouped along with what metabolic pathways they are linked to. In the case of Type 2A, they are linked to sulphur metabolism and are found on same chromosome as a group II cysteine desulfurase, likely on the same operon. We chose to purify this protein because we wanted to characterise it but also as we needed a positive control for our bioluminescent assay. In conjugation with part BBa_K5330020 and BBa_K5330021, this will theoretically produce a loss of light when mixed with NanoGlo. This part will be used to emulate a blood sample containing MAP and thus MAP specific proteins. This is because Encapsulin monomers from MAP will rearrange to incorporate our engineered monomers (SmBiT-Encap2A and LgBiT-Encap2A) resulting in distance being introduced between halves of the split luciferase and either less or no light produced at all. Type 1 Encapsulins have been submitted to the registry before (see part …) continue with use and
Usage and Biology
Sequence and Features
- 10COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
- 12COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
- 21COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
- 23COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
- 25COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
- 1000COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]
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